Comments on: Honeymoon Over For Social Networks? Back to School, Then http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html Internet Marketing News Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:15:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: This Week In SEO - 4/27/07 | TheVanBlog http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-40656 This Week In SEO - 4/27/07 | TheVanBlog Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:33:34 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html#comment-40656 [...] Honeymoon Over For Social Networks? Back to School, Then [...] [...] Honeymoon Over For Social Networks? Back to School, Then [...]

]]> By: This Week In SEO - 4/27/07 - TheVanBlog http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-25232 This Week In SEO - 4/27/07 - TheVanBlog Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:23:17 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html#comment-25232 [...] Honeymoon Over For Social Networks? Back to School, Then [...] [...] Honeymoon Over For Social Networks? Back to School, Then [...]

]]> By: Dave http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-25024 Dave Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:24:28 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html#comment-25024 Thanks Jordan! Thanks Jordan!

]]> By: Jordan McCollum http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-25000 Jordan McCollum Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:57:52 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html#comment-25000 Dave--So sorry to repeat their error. I've updated the article to reflect this! Dave–So sorry to repeat their error. I’ve updated the article to reflect this!

]]> By: Dave http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-24997 Dave Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:54:45 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html#comment-24997 This is an interesting article, and one reason why we are trying a different approach with our provision of an open source social networking platform. One small point: "like Elgg created by the University of Brighton" This was something that the journalist on Wired got wrong. Elgg is not a product of Brighton University - they are one of our clients. Cheers. This is an interesting article, and one reason why we are trying a different approach with our provision of an open source social networking platform. One small point:

“like Elgg created by the University of Brighton”

This was something that the journalist on Wired got wrong. Elgg is not a product of Brighton University – they are one of our clients.

Cheers.

]]> By: girlfriday http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-24982 girlfriday Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:07:29 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html#comment-24982 In a highly competitive environment, Educators and administrators are realizing what business has just gotten the hang of: you have to take your message to the people in terms they understand and accept as credible. If education is going to be seen as relevant to a growing population of young people, it is going to be in the best interests of schools to make sure that they can participate in the way they know best. Increasingly, web-based applications which include social networking are not only accepted and embraced, but seen as a way to take education out of the classroom and into the unserved population of people who lack the ability to physically attend in scheduled, brick and mortar classrooms. The other major advantage is allowing an extended conversation at much less cost than traditional education. The only problem I found (and it's a major one, a deal-breaker) is that educational social networks are often taken over by individual agendas: when you have to read all other posts as a requirement for a class, it is annoying and time consuming to plow through comments made by people pushing their own ideology. I dropped a literature class because Born-Again Christians insisted on framing the conversation in terms of salvation, and it just got too frustrating to deal with all that. Otherwise, social networking provides an effective, interactive way to make all of us lifelong learners, and that is a GOOD thing. In a highly competitive environment, Educators and administrators are realizing what business has just gotten the hang of: you have to take your message to the people in terms they understand and accept as credible. If education is going to be seen as relevant to a growing population of young people, it is going to be in the best interests of schools to make sure that they can participate in the way they know best. Increasingly, web-based applications which include social networking are not only accepted and embraced, but seen as a way to take education out of the classroom and into the unserved population of people who lack the ability to physically attend in scheduled, brick and mortar classrooms. The other major advantage is allowing an extended conversation at much less cost than traditional education. The only problem I found (and it’s a major one, a deal-breaker) is that educational social networks are often taken over by individual agendas: when you have to read all other posts as a requirement for a class, it is annoying and time consuming to plow through comments made by people pushing their own ideology. I dropped a literature class because Born-Again Christians insisted on framing the conversation in terms of salvation, and it just got too frustrating to deal with all that. Otherwise, social networking provides an effective, interactive way to make all of us lifelong learners, and that is a GOOD thing.

]]> By: Mandar http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-24969 Mandar Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:02:40 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/04/honeymoon-over-for-social-networks-back-to-school-then.html#comment-24969 Yes, the point you raised totally valid and I agree to it. The competition is now fierce for networking sites, and they will have to sell demographic data if they want to be profitable. But will genre will come when everybody will find it essential to have more than one account for social networking? Yes, the point you raised totally valid and I agree to it.
The competition is now fierce for networking sites, and they will have to sell demographic data if they want to be profitable.
But will genre will come when everybody will find it essential to have more than one account for social networking?

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